{"598965":{"#nid":"598965","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Driverless Cars Will Change the Way Cities Feel","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote the \u003Cem\u003ECityLab\u003C\/em\u003E, November 15, article, \u0026ldquo;Driverless Cars Will Change the Way Cities Feel.\u0026rdquo; The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s 6 p.m. in Tempe, Arizona and pitch-black outside. I\u0026rsquo;m standing in the middle of a five-lane thoroughfare, among a group of people too numerous for the narrow median. We got trapped here after a brigade of left-turning cars preempted our passage\u0026mdash;that\u0026rsquo;s a thing that happens in cities like this one, designed for automobiles over pedestrians. An SUV pulls up as we cower inches away, waiting for the next traffic-light cycle. The driver\u0026rsquo;s window is rolled down to allow some of the cool night air in. The man behind the wheel looks bored like most drivers do. But he isn\u0026rsquo;t a driver, not exactly. The vehicle he controls is an autonomous Volvo operated by Uber, which is conducting an ongoing test of its self-driving fleet here. With his hands idle in his lap, the driver is more like us pedestrians\u0026mdash;waiting for the cars around him to move. Whether in five years or 25, eventually cars like this one will probably convey most people to their destinations.\u0026nbsp; Bogost is a contributing editor at \u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E. He is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in media studies and a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/life\/2017\/11\/how-driverless-cars-will-change-the-feel-of-cities\/546014\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECityLab\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/a\u003E website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2017-11-20 14:40:17","changed_gmt":"2017-12-04 16:00:50","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/life\/2017\/11\/how-driverless-cars-will-change-the-feel-of-cities\/546014\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594940":{"id":"594940","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1503584868","gmt_created":"2017-08-24 14:27:48","changed":"1503584868","gmt_changed":"2017-08-24 14:27:48","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226734","name":"Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66318,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg?itok=gSmYnzGU"}}},"media_ids":["594940"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6561","name":"city"},{"id":"3373","name":"lab"},{"id":"176312","name":"SUV"},{"id":"4576","name":"pedestrian"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}